George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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The criminal law is no use to decent people.
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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.
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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
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This souls' prison we call England.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
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Stimulate the phagocytes.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.